[Mageia-dev] Disable GTK/GLIB error messages - .xsession-errors overflooded

[Florian Hubold]

Am 03.09.2011 20:53, schrieb Olav Vitters:
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 07:47:55PM +0200, Florian Hubold wrote:
>> Am 03.09.2011 18:25, schrieb Olav Vitters:
>>> On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 05:25:51PM +0200, Florian Hubold wrote:
>>>> Seems those are not considered a bug:
>>>> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=50252
>>>> I'll check again with a local rebuild of transmission-2.33.
>>> I don't agree to that, it should always be reported. But suggest
>>> reporting these directly (https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ has a "report
>>> a problem" section).
>>>
>>> Though it is really strange it doesn't occur for me at all.
>> You can't compare apples to bananas, cauldron is like another distribution.
> You're using Mageia 1 then? I didn't know (assume -dev = Cauldron
> people),
Yes, citing original mail:

    /just recently i noticed that my .xsession-errors on Mageia 1 has grown
    quite a bit/

Guessed this list is suited better for technical stuff than -discuss.


> but the bugreport is from 2009, so it should've been fixed
> already in Mageia 1. In any case, such error messages are not just for
> informational purposes; they might not cause user visible problems, but
> they do indicate a programming error.
Well, i'm more like: If there is an error message, but no real error to it, 
don't really care.
>
>> Also you read the comments from the Mandriva developers, especially
>> from Goetz Waschk, GNOME maintainer for Mandriva?
> Yes, I know who he is as well as others who replied. Anyway, it appears
> he understands the cause and that it won't have impact. So there still
> is a bug (comment 3). I'm guessing it is a theme engine causing this
> though (in which case you won't notice in Cauldron), not anything in
> gtk+ or transmission.
So far there is no real problem, but i don't want to ignore the sheer mass of 
error messages.
>
>> If the problem persists with 2.33, i'll report that upstream.
> Thanks, also check with a different theme if you could.
Maybe also check without existing settings as i imported them from my 2010.1 
installation.